Featured Trades: (CORN), (WHEAT), (SOYBEANS) Teucrium Commodity Trust Corn ETF 2) Time to Add some Corn to Your Diet.? I have been waiting for a substantial dip in the grains to add to a position in corn, and it is clear from the chart below that we are just not getting it. While the
Featured Trades: (SPX) S&P 500 Large Cap Index ETF 3) My Equity Scenario for the Rest of 2010. Not a day goes by when I don't fall down on my knees and thank the heavens that I avoided equities for much of this year (click here for 'I'd Rather Get a Poke in the Eye
4) Another Admiring E-Mail. I get about 500 emails a day, but occasionally, I get one so choice that I have to pass it on to you. To the thousands of students, job seekers, and soon to be cashiered veterans who read this letter every day online, take heart! 'Dear Mad Hedge Fund Trader,'
Featured Trades: (SOUTH AFRICA), (EZA) South Africa iShares ETF 2) On Safari in South Africa. When I first visited South Africa (EZA) as a journalist in 1979, I was stuffed into the trunk of a car and smuggled into Soweto, a fenced off? 'township' , so I could write about the appalling living conditions there.
Featured Trades: (SILVER), (SLV) iShares Silver Trust ETF 2) Silver is Hot, Hot, Hot. Those who followed my advice to watch silver should by now have the precious coins raining down upon them (click here for 'Why the Really Big Play is in Silver' ). Since then, the precious white metal has jumped 8%
Featured Trades: (GOLD), (GLD), (GDX) SPDR Gold Shares ETF Market Vectors Gold Miners ETF 1) The San Francisco Money Show. I attended the Woodstock of investment conferences last week, the San Francisco Money Show, which offered an entertaining three ring circus of traders, foreign exchange models, options platforms, newsletters, cruises, video broadcasts, and more. The
Featured Trades: (STEVE FORBES) 2) A Chat With Steve Forbes. I sat down with Forbes magazine publisher and perennial Republican presidential candidate, Steve Forbes, whose father, Malcolm, I knew from my journalism days in the seventies. He was there formally to promote his new book, Power Ambition Glory, but I couldn't help but sense his
SPECIAL BOND BUBBLE ISSUE Featured Trades: (TREASURY BONDS), (TIPS), (TBT) ProShares Ultra Short 20 year +Treasury ETF 1) Don't Buy That Treasury Bond. Another week later, and Treasury bond prices have raced up to even dizzier heights, breaking more records for over valuation. According to the Investment Company Institute, outflows from equity mutual funds
SPECIAL BOND BUBBLE ISSUE Featured Trades: (RESIDENTIAL REAL ESTATE), (BAC) 2) Another Nail in the Coffin for Residential Real Estate. Those few, like myself, who believe that the residential real estate market has another down leg ahead of it, got their smoking gun yesterday. July existing home sales cratered 27.2% to a seasonally adjusted rate
SPECIAL BOND BUBBLE ISSUE Featured Trades: (GOLD), (GLD), (GDX) SPDR Gold Shares ETF Market Vectors Gold Miners ETF 3) Why Gold Seems Unbreakable. While the rest of the world has been going to hell in a hand basket, gold (GLD), (GDX) refuses to take a serious dip, and is threatening the old $1,260 high. Today,
